South Korea has many beautiful women, just look at Song Jina, Park Si-hyun, for e.g.. It is just confusing...

3:52 pm August 25, 2014

Frank Sweep wrote:

Womens golf will be in tatters.

11:25 pm August 25, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

700 years from now? I think the human population in general will be a lot lower by that time, either from environmental destruction, overpopulation and insufficient resources, war, plagues, etc.

11:26 pm August 25, 2014

Andrew wrote:

Gobbled up by North Korea

2:14 am August 26, 2014

Vince wrote:

Its economics and overpopulation that makes ppl in east asia to have fewer children. Economically pressures are very high and expensive to raise multiple children and experiencing living in crowded cities makes it more uncomfortable to have more children hence most choose to have 1-2 at most. Unlike Westerners which were able to conquer huge swaths of land from the americas, africa and australia etc. Asians in general kept to their original continents hence they have a very dense population.

3:49 am August 26, 2014

Ian wrote:

According to UN demographic figures, South Korea's birth rate in teh 1950s to 1970s was 3-4 times the birth rate in the 2000s. A decline in light of the overshoot in population is nothing to be concerned about. Once the population size normalizes, a return to normal sustainable birth levels is more realistic than computer simulations showing the extinction of a country.

8:31 am August 26, 2014

Psy wrote:

@ WowKorea: Some people just never have anything intelligent to say..

12:57 pm August 26, 2014

Siloo Kapadia wrote:

Rubbish! This assumes that nations like South Korea, Japan, Singapore, etc. will do NOTHING about their declining population. I doubt that will be the case.

BTW, what will USA be like in 100 years, save a thousand years? The way things look it will be a poor backwater, with mostly South Americans and clusters of krackers, shotguns in hand, in the hills.

11:17 pm August 26, 2014

Stéphanie wrote:

Seriously..this in 700 years. First, will the human race still exist by then!? Second, I think there are other important issues we will have to deal with until we reach 2750.

3:52 am August 27, 2014

fmc wrote:

Forecasting a 700 year outcome based on a couple of decades of data is like polling the residents of one street and extrapolating the outcome for the whole world.

4:47 am August 27, 2014

Population Explosion wrote:

The "double-time for the world is still under 20 years with many figures pointing to many natural resources being depleted by 2110. Then the human race goes the way of the dodo. This statistic is not disparaging to me in any way.

4:51 am August 27, 2014

Population Explosion Inbound wrote:

Due to the world's "double-time" for population still being under 20 years, this is a stat that gives me hope. Most figures point to us running out of many natural resources within 90 years which then is typically followed by extinction in most mammals. Good for them for not contributing to our extinction. People will be begging to emmigrate to South Korea in 50 years.

5:34 am August 27, 2014

Marlo Stanfield wrote:

@Siloo Kapadia
"a poor backwater, with mostly South Americans and clusters of krackers, shotguns in hand, in the hills."

Sounds like a wonderful mix of ignorance and bigotry.

8:52 am August 27, 2014

Miyoung wrote:

By 2750 I'm sure Korea will be unified and birth rate wouldn't be a problem. What about the problems in other countries by 2750? This article is ridiculous.

12:08 am August 28, 2014

Die Anonymous wrote:

Die people who hate Korea

12:22 am August 28, 2014

Jay wrote:

Xenophobia has a cost.

6:27 am August 28, 2014

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10:40 am August 28, 2014

ryan wrote:

Everytime governments try to regulate family size it will always backfire, either like alot of Asian countries with an aging population and the issues that affords. Or like romainia where women were tested for fertility and almost force bred during the 60s and 70s which has lead to an over populated orphanage system and a higher than normal crime rate

4:17 pm August 28, 2014

Keith wrote:

Mankind will have destroyed themselves long before then anyway.

5:20 am August 29, 2014

not that dumb wrote:

The Wall Street journal will be gone before Korea.

7:36 am August 29, 2014

Unification will prevent Extinction wrote:

This blog post is idiotic. It assumes that fertility will stay so low for centuries. Also, it is likely that Koreas will be united in a few years or decades and that will add people. African immigration is another solution.

7:57 pm August 29, 2014

2r29 wrote:

ill be dead by then anyway

12:16 pm August 31, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

lol Keith is 100% correct.... with health conditions plummeting, quality of food/air/water plummeting, consuming earth's resources at a ridiculous pace, polluting earth at a ridiculous rate, etc, etc... I estimate humans will be around for another 500 years or so

6:19 pm September 23, 2014

Barsa wrote:

Is this for real? If yes, then what may be the reasons for this low fertility rates and population?

9:59 pm February 25, 2015

Joe Donovan wrote:

@Marlo Stanfield: The tone of your message would indicate that perhaps you are the bigoted one. Depending on your particular definition of the term "kracker" I may well be one. I bear NO prejudice toward anyone on the basis of appearance -- only demonstrated action by an individual. I could, however, grab a shotgun and survive in the hills. Not sure why @Siloo Kapadia chose to use the benign "South American" and normally derogatory "kracker" in the same sentence but it's clear that you view all South Americans as ignorant and folks from the South to be bigoted.

The term "kracker" was first used to describe cattle ranchers in Florida in the 19th century who used the sound of a cracking whip to keep their herd moving. It had nothing to do with slave ownership or anything else that could be construed as disparaging toward their culture.

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